4.8 Letting Users Report Translation Bugs

Code sometimes has bugs, but translations sometimes have bugs too. The
users need to be able to report them. Reporting translation bugs to the
programmer or maintainer of a package is not very useful, since the
maintainer must never change a translation, except on behalf of the
translator. Hence the translation bugs must be reported to the
translators.

Here is a way to organize this so that the maintainer does not need to
forward translation bug reports, nor even keep a list of the addresses of
the translators or their translation teams.

Every program has a place where is shows the bug report address. For
GNU programs, it is the code which handles the “–help” option,
typically in a function called “usage”. In this place, instruct the
translator to add her own bug reporting address. For example, if that
code has a statement